How do you avoid deoderant stains?

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iamaelephant

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Originally posted by: Garth
I don't understand the seemingly insistent need to wear deodorant/antiperspirant. I shower daily, never wear deodorant and never have body odor issues. Maybe I just don't perspire as much as others or I lack the concentrations of bacteria that cause the odor.

Take a shower, you dirty hippies! :)

You don't think you smell, but you do.
 

jadinolf

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Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
I never used to wear t-shirts so i never had this problem until now. I always wore dress shirts with inner shirts. Now im trying to be more casual but every time i put on a t-shirt i cant seem to avoid those nasty white marks..

Don't use deodorant.
 

mitchafi

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Are we talking about stains the color of the deodorant (white) or the ones where the shirt is actually permanently discolored in that area (sort of a bleach-esque effect). I've been having a problem where once in awhile I will just find orange-ish streaks on my darker colored shirts that don't wash out. It really pisses me off, as it renders the shirt unwearable pretty quickly. I was thinking it was from my mildly acidic facewash, but after seeing this thread, perhaps its my deodorant?
 

sao123

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Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
I never used to wear t-shirts so i never had this problem until now. I always wore dress shirts with inner shirts. Now im trying to be more casual but every time i put on a t-shirt i cant seem to avoid those nasty white marks..

EZ... dont wear any!!!11!!1!11!


actually if you dont want whie stains... wear real deoderant...not antiperspirant...
or wear the gel.
 

Dr. Detroit

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To avoid deodorant build up use one without Zinc. Check the active ingrediants and only purchase those without Zinc.

There are a few brands, the Old Spice original basic is one of em and my personal choice..


 

TheSiege

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i always wear a white undershirt, ALWAYS, it keeps my clothes lasting longer, all my sweat is absorbed by the cheap 1 dollar shirt and it leaves my tshirt, dress shirt, polo, whatever looking nice, and if there are any stains, its on the undershirt.
 

Gunslinger08

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Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Originally posted by: Garth
I don't understand the seemingly insistent need to wear deodorant/antiperspirant. I shower daily, never wear deodorant and never have body odor issues. Maybe I just don't perspire as much as others or I lack the concentrations of bacteria that cause the odor.

Take a shower, you dirty hippies! :)

You don't think you smell, but you do.

Exactly. Your nose is used to it. Ask your co-workers what they think. We have a guy at work who didn't wear deodorant because he thought he smelled fine. He definitely did not.
 

NiteWulf

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Roll up your shirt a bit before putting it on so the only deodorant stains you have are on the inside
 

mrSHEiK124

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Originally posted by: NiteWulf
Roll up your shirt a bit before putting it on so the only deodorant stains you have are on the inside

I was about to post this. It appears the OP sucks at expressing concepts and ideas, but he's actually freaking getting fresh deo/antiperspirant from his pits on the outside of his t-shirt because he can't get it on right. Roll it up, stick your head through the top, and don't let your arms flop wildly trapping your t-shirts in your deodorant loaded pits of doom.

I never thought I'd fucking see the day where we'd have to tell someone how to put their clothes on here...

EDIT: For future reference, to most people, deodorant stains always means the nasty yellowish marks that any deodorant with antiperspirant will eventually leave on the pits of your shirts.